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America Past and Present, Brief presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, blending the best in past historical interpretation with new scholarship. This edition features all the strengths of the successful parent text: a compelling narrative, clear organization, and exceptional pedagogy. An attractive four-color design highlighted with numerous maps and photos will engage students and instructors alike.

Maps

xxi

Charts, Figures, and Tables

xxii

Features

xxii

Preface

xxv

About the Authors

xxxi

New World Encounters

1

(22)

Native American Cultures

2

(4)

Diversity and Achievement

3

(1)

The Indians' New World

4

(1)

Disease and Dependence

5

(1)

West Africa: People and History

6

(1)

Europe on the Eve of Conquest

7

(1)

European Nation-States

7

(1)

Europeans' New World

8

(4)

Admiral of the Ocean Sea

8

(1)

The Conquistadores

9

(1)

Managing an Empire

10

(2)

French Exploration and Settlement

12

(1)

The English New World

12

(4)

Religious Turmoil and Reformation in Europe

13

(1)

The Protestant Queen

14

(2)

Religion, War, and Nationalism

16

(1)

Rehearsal in Ireland for American Colonization

16

(1)

England Turns to America

17

(6)

Roanoke Tragedy

17

(3)

Propaganda for Empire

20

(3)

England's Colonial Experiments: The Seventeenth Century

23

(25)

Leaving Home

24

(1)

The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth

25

(5)

Entrepreneurs in Virginia

25

(2)

``Stinking Weed''

27

(1)

Time of Reckoning

28

(1)

Maryland: A Troubled Refuge for Catholics

29

(1)

Reinventing England in America

30

(6)

``The Great Migration''

31

(1)

``A City on a Hill''

32

(3)

Defining the Limits of Dissent

35

(1)

Breaking Away

35

(1)

Diversity in the Middle Colonies

36

(2)

Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson

36

(2)

Confusion in New Jersey

38

(1)

Quakers in America

38

(3)

Planting the Carolinas

41

(3)

The Founding of Georgia

44

(1)

Rugged and Laborious Beginnings

45

(3)

Putting Down Roots: Families in an Atlantic Empire

48

(20)

Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century

49

(4)

Immigrant Families and New Social Order

49

(1)

Commonwealth of Families

50

(1)

Women's Lives in Puritan New England

51

(1)

Rank and Status in New England Society

52

(1)

The Planters' World

53

(2)

Family Life in a Perilous Environment

53

(1)

Rank and Status in Plantation Society

54

(1)

Race and Freedom in British America

55

(3)

Roots of Slavery

55

(2)

Constructing African American Identities

57

(1)

Commercial Blueprint for Empire

58

(3)

Response to Economic Competition

59

(1)

An Empire of Trade

59

(2)

Colonial Gentry in Revolt, 1676--1691

61

(4)

Civil War in Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion

61

(1)

The Glorious Revolution in the Bay Colony

62

(1)

Contagion of Witchcraft

63

(1)

The Glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland

63

(2)

Common Experiences, Separate Cultures

65

(3)

Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America

68

(30)

Experiencing Diversity

70

(1)

Forced Migration

70

(1)

Ethnic Cultures of the Backcountry

71

(2)

Scots-Irish and Germans

71

(1)

Native Americans Define the Middle Ground

72

(1)

Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century

73

(3)

Conquering the Northern Frontier

74

(1)

Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands

75

(1)

British Colonies in an Atlantic World

76

(2)

Provincial Cities

76

(1)

Economic Transformation

77

(1)

Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies

78

(4)

American Enlightenment

79

(1)

The Great Awakening

80

(2)

Clash of Political Cultures

82

(2)

The Reality of British Politics

82

(1)

Governing the Colonies: The American Experience

82

(1)

Colonial Assemblies

83

(1)

Century of Imperial War

84

(7)

King William's and Queen Anne's Wars

84

(2)

King George's War and Its Aftermath

86

(1)

Albany Congress and Braddock's Defeat

87

(1)

Seven Years' War

88

(3)

Rule Britannia?

91

(4)

We Americans

Learning to Live with Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Is an American?

95

(3)

The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763--1783